Ukraine oligarch puts Hirst on show

Damien Hirst is truly a global brand: he gets everywhere. Next stop is a show in Kiev, at the Pinchuk Arts Centre, where 100 works from private collections will be shown. Victor Pinchuk is a controversial oligarch: Ukraine's second-richest man and the son-in-law of the country's authoritarian former president, Leonid Kuchma. He is also a lavish contributor to Bill Clinton's charitable foundation, spends nights out with Elton John and Paul McCartney, and had Hirst advise him on the colour scheme of his private jet. (Blue, apparently.) No doubt Pinchuk will show his own Hirsts in the exhibition - he was a buyer at the artist's record-breaking Sotheby's auction last September.